Gartner Expert

Ryan Polk

Director Analyst

Ryan Polk is a Washington DC-based Executive Advisor with Gartner's Procurement practice. In his current role, Mr. Polk works with Heads of Procurement and their term members to solve challenges like supplier management, category management, strategic sourcing, risk management and functional transformation.

Previous experience

At CACI Inc., Mr. Polk was responsible for the procurement of professional services in support of projects at multiple civilian, defense and intelligence government agencies. As Category Management Lead, he developed, implemented and grew CACI's Category Management team to manage over $500M in annual spend.

During his tenure at CACI, Mr, Polk also served as a professional staff member of the congressionally mandated Section 809 Panel. In this role, he researched contract audit and supply chain risk management best practices to make policy, regulatory and statutory recommendations to the U.S. Congress that enable speed and agility in defense procurement.